The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 477
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UNION AUTHORITIES.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 27, 1862.
THOMAS A. SCOTT, Esq.,
Philadelphia :
The pay and bounty will be allowed until the time of drafting for
recruits for the old regiments. The distinction is made between them
and the new regiments in order to fill up the old regiments. The same
credit to the fullest extent is in either case given to the State, dis-
trict, or township.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 27, 1862.
Governor SALOMON,
Madison, Wis.:
In the case supposed in your telegram of yesterday afternoon I do
not know anything better than to " let them slide."
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
MADISON, WIS., August 27, 1862-11.45 a. m.
(Received 6.45 p. in.)
General C. P. BUCKINGHAM:
Your dispatch received. If it means to say that the number of
troops to be raised, beginning with the call of July 2, is 23,808, and
that besides this we are to have a special draft for what is necessary
to fill our old regiments to maximum, I want you to understand this
would amount to 29,712. You called on us July 8 for five regiments,
as a part of our quota of the 300,000 volunteers; but in dispatch
of August 6, in ordering the draft of 1.1,904 men, you expressly
stated that the States should have credit for whatever surplus they
had theretofore sent to the field. Our surplus was somewhere about
5,000, so that we supposed our first call provided for when we had
the five regiments called for July 8 full. We have then gone
on receiving and organizing volunteers, to be credited on our draft,
assigning the quota of counties on the basis as above, as we understood
it. Most of our counties have thus raised their quota, and very great
dissatisfaction would arise if the figures given them, fully authorized
by dispatches on file, are not adhered to now. What I want to know
is, whether you call on us to supply 6,904 men on our first call, and
give us no credit for surplus sent before July 2. I ought to have a
distinct understanding on this point at once. All I ask is to fix our
number definitely and justly and let me know it. Can I receive
volunteers for old regiments after September 1 and until draft ?
E. SALOMON,
Governor of Wisconsin.
MADISON, WIS., August 27, 1862-4.50 p. m.
(Received 9 p. m.)
General C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Assistant Adjutant- General:
Your dispatch received. I assure the Department that I shall
make the draft on the first day possible, but what I want is to be477
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